Wells Fargo Advantage Core Bond Fund
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ADVISER | Wells Fargo Funds Management, LLC
SUB-ADVISER | Wells Capital Management Incorporated ("Wells Capital Management")
PORTFOLIO MANAGERS
THE FUND | The Wells Fargo Advantage Core Bond Fund seeks total return by principally investing in investment-grade securities that offer attractive income or capital appreciation opportunities.
FUND STRATEGY
- Focuses on bottom-up security selection in a universe of high-quality, liquid bonds.
- Uses a bottom-up security selection process that focuses on measuring relative value on a return-to-risk basis.
- Typically keeps duration neutral to that of the benchmark, with a predominant emphasis on issue selection.
- Uses proprietary risk management systems as the foundation for a highly disciplined decision-making process.
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGES
- Risk management and research: The team combines a proprietary risk management system with extensive bottom-up security selection to add incremental levels of alpha with each trade. This process empowers the team to tactically trade for value among a universe of highly liquid, high-quality securities.
- Bottom-up credit selection process: The team's credit selection process of tactically trading in the most liquid markets, coupled with a rigorous risk management system, enables it to add modest levels of alpha in all market cycles. By contrast, many traditional core bond strategies are not designed in this way and consequently may find cycles in which it is more difficult to add excess returns.
- Risk management: Risk controls are the foundation of every step of the team's process. Risk management is integrated into valuations, analytics, and trading, with the resulting portfolio composed of securities that are vetted through bottom-up credit research but modeled in a manner that seeks to minimize excessive risk relative to the benchmark.
RISKS |
Bond values fluctuate in response to the financial condition of individual issuers, general market and economic conditions, and changes in interest rates. In general, when interest rates rise, bond values fall and investors may lose principal value. The use of derivatives may reduce returns and/or increase volatility. Certain investment strategies tend to increase the total risk of an investment (relative to the broader market). This fund is exposed to foreign investment risk and mortgage- and asset-backed securities risk. Consult the fund's prospectus for additional information on these and other risks.
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TOP HOLDINGS – % of net assets as of 04-30-2013


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| WI TREASURY N/B 04/18 0.625, 0.62%, 2018-04-30 |
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2.83% |


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| U.S. Treasury N/b 0.25, 0.25%, 2015-01-15 |
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2.23% |


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| U.S. Treasury N/b, 0.25%, 2015-03-31 |
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2.14% |


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| FHLMC, 3.50%, 2043-07-01 |
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2.02% |


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| U.S. Treasury N/b, 0.25%, 2014-04-30 |
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1.55% |


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| U.S. Treasury N/b, 0.25%, 2015-10-15 |
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1.31% |


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| U.S. Treasury N/b, 0.37%, 2015-04-15 |
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1.27% |


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| WI Treasury N/b, 0.37%, 2016-03-15 |
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1.27% |


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| U.S. Treasury N/b Fixed, 1.37%, 2015-11-30 |
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1.21% |


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| FNMA, 4.00%, 2042-09-01 |
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1.19% |


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